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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: RA81's hanging??
Message-ID: <238@boulder.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 21:20:45 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 21:20:45 1984
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Reply-To: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jon Corbet)
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research
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>	>The RA81's are useless. They always hang. I can't get
>	>them to do anything for love or money. Stick with
>	>something else (we usually use Fuji Eagles).
>
>As someone who has a new VAX780 and 3 RA81's in the process of being
>installed, this (hopefully idle) comment has me scared to death.
>Can any others out there corroborate this, or offer contrary
>circumstantial evidence?
>
>We've got the UDA50 on a UNIBUS of its own, by the way.

Well, we have 2 RA81's on a UDA50, and we have yet to have a single 
problem.   They are fast and reliable.

I guess I should mention that we run VMS, which should not make a
difference, but who knows?
--
Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
{seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon